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Higher education endowments and foundations saw a rebound in the returns from private equity for the fiscal year ended June 30, but a strong exit environment in 2014 proved a double-edged sword and caused their allocations in the asset classes to fall, according to a study. Read More »

For private equity firms around the globe, the first half of 2014 was more about harvesting investments than sowing new ones.

Firms sold a record $187.3 billion of holdings in the first half, nearly double the $97.3 billion recorded last year, according to data provider Dealogic Ltd. More than half of that tally, $98.8 billion, came from North and South America. Read More »

An overwhelming majority of the most successful European exits in the past decade were from primary buyouts, fueling concern that the increasing wave of secondary deals will significantly reduce future returns. Read More »

Taiwan’s plan to allow China-registered companies to trade on its stock exchange could offer private-equity investors an alternative place to offload their mainland investments

The number of markets receptive to Chinese companies seeking public listings has grown smaller over the past year. Even domestically, Chinese regulators stopped approving initial public offerings last year. This has forced China-focused private-equity investors to sit on unexited investments and strained their ability to achieve returns and give capital back to their investors.